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We describe the dynamics of a single fermion in a dispersionless band coupled to the 2+1 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) describing the quantum phase transition of a bosonic order parameter with N components. The fermionic spectral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-30 Andrea Allais , Subir Sachdev

We consider a 2-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) obtained from twisted compactification of the 4-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on a Riemann surface with boundary. We find the boundary conditions to preserve some of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 Koichi Nagasaki , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We consider supersymmetric conformal quantum field theories (SCFTs) with degrees of freedom labeled by lattice data. We will assume that in terms of the corresponding lattice the interactions are nearest neighbor and exactly marginal. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Shlomo S. Razamat , Michal Shemesh , Aelly Zeltzer

We study two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory describing four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity/Yang-Mills systems and show that the underlying symmetry is a supersymmetric generalization of BMS symmetry. We construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

Using polarization spinor methods in conjunction with the superspace formalism, we construct 3-point superconformal invariants that are used to determine the form of 3-point correlators of spinning superfield operators in $\mathcal{N}=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Aditya Jain , Amin A. Nizami

We review a recently proposed SuperGeometric (SG) approach to Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) that allow for scalar-fermion field transformations in a manifestly reparameterisation covariant manner. By adopting natural choices for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-23 Viola Gattus , Apostolos Pilaftsis

Celestial diamonds encode the global conformal multiplets of the conformally soft sector, elucidating the role of soft theorems, symmetry generators and Goldstone modes. Upon adding supersymmetry they stack into a pyramid. Here we treat the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Yorgo Pano , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrea Puhm

Supersymmetric conformal field theories (SCFTs) form a unique subset of quantum field theories which provide powerful insights into strongly coupled critical phenomena. Here, we present a microscopic and non-perturbative realization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-01 Yin Tang , Cristian Voinea , Liangdong Hu , Zlatko Papić , W. Zhu

By conformally coupling vector and hyper multiplets in Minkowski space, we obtain a class of field theories with extended rigid conformal supersymmetry on any Lorentzian four-manifold admitting twistor spinors. We construct the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul de Medeiros , Stefan Hollands

We formulate minimal SuperGeometric Quantum Field Theories (SG-QFTs) that allow for scalar-fermion field transformations in a manifestly reparameterisation covariant manner. First, we discuss the issue of uniqueness in defining the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Viola Gattus , Apostolos Pilaftsis

We propose a brane configuration for the (2+1)d, $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories (CFT$_3$) arising from M2-branes probing toric Calabi-Yau 4-fold cones, using a T-duality transformation of M-theory. We obtain intersections of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Sangmin Lee

We build a four-dimensional quaternion-parametrized conformal field theory (QCFT) using quaternion holomorphic functions as the generators of quaternionic conformal transformations. Taking the two-dimensional complex-parametrized conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-03 Sergio Giardino

We study the large-charge sector of large-N fermionic CFTs in three dimensions. Depending on the model and the nature of the fixed charge, we find two types of descriptions: in terms of a superfluid or a Fermi sphere. We explicitly compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-13 Nicola Dondi , Simeon Hellerman , Ioannis Kalogerakis , Rafael Moser , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

We investigate fermionic quantum field theories using functional renormalisation. In the limit of many fermion flavours $N$, we demonstrate that theories have exact solutions for their quantum effective actions given by quasi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Charlie Cresswell-Hogg , Daniel F. Litim

We formulate a family of spin Topological Quantum Filed Theories (spin-TQFTs) as fermionic generalization of bosonic Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFTs. They are obtained by gauging $G$-equivariant invertible spin-TQFTs, or, in physics language,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Meng Guo , Kantaro Ohmori , Pavel Putrov , Zheyan Wan , Juven Wang

Two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) can be defined through its correlation functions. These must satisfy certain consistency conditions which arise from the cutting of world sheets along circles or intervals. The construction of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Ingo Runkel , Jens Fjelstad , Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

We develop a systematic framework for constructing (3+1)-dimensional topological orders or topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) that realize specified anomalies of finite symmetries, as encountered in gauge theories with fermions or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Arun Debray , Weicheng Ye , Matthew Yu

Groundstates of 1+1d conformal field theories (CFTs) satisfy a local entropic condition called the vector fixed point equation. This condition is surprisingly well satisfied by groundstates of quantum critical lattice models even at small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-08 Xiang Li , Ting-Chun Lin , John McGreevy

We construct a supersymmetric version of the ``critical'' non-relativistic bosonic string theory\cite{Kim:2007hb} with its manifest global symmetry. We introduce the anticommuting $bc$ CFT which is the super partner of the $\beta\gamma$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Bom Soo Kim

I review recent work concerning the microphysics of cosmic string solutions of N=1 supersymmetric gauge field theories.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Mark Trodden